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Jame's Horde Leveling Guide

Now also available as an in-game leveling addon. Please check out the following page to try the WoW-Pro Leveling Addon!

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Tips

If you don't want to try our WoW Leveling Addon, here's how to enjoy the paper version of the guides as much as possible, even if you don't have a 2nd monitor, you can either:

1. Print the guides. There is a "Printer Friendly Version" link at the bottom of every guide, you just have to click on it. However, that might be expansive (and probably expensive), because the guides are big, very big. Another downside is that my guides are updated very frequently, so if you print it you'll miss the latest updates.

2. Playing WOW in Windowed Mode feels very comfortable while following along with this guide.

Keep the guide opened in an internet window

Log in to World of Warcraft, press Escape and go to Video Options, tick the following boxes:

Click on "Apply".

Your screen will look exactly as if you were playing wow in full screen mode, besides you will be able to ALT-TAB to the guide INSTANTLY.

This is how I play wow while following my guide, when I don't feel like booting up my 2nd computer

Comments

Me and my brother purchased Cataclysm a few months back and we played for about 2 months and then we quit, (not enough time to play). But my question is whether these leveling guides is effective anymore? I mean Blizzard have made it much more easier to do quests, its almost like they built in a leveling guide in the game.

I remembered a few years back where leveling guides such as Dugi's, and even the very popular at the time Joana's were very effective and made a huge difference in leveling time. Is the difference really that big nowadays?

I have used both guides, the main difference i see between the two is what zygors guide calls dynamic leveling (or something), which basically means the guide checks what level you are, checks the level of the quest, if its a chain that would result in quests your level, etc and then decides whether its worth you taking or skipping the quests. Whilst good in theory, there have been a few times that it has cocked up and skipped quests that are vital for other quests, or sent me all round the houses to get 1 quest that wasnt really worth it or i was unable to get as i skipped a prequest.

The long and short of it is, both guides are VERY good, I have used Wow-Pro's guides for a long time and have recommended them to several friends. If you have the money to spare, give Zygors a go, but there isnt a HUGE difference, and personally I would rather save the money and get something that does the same job.. but for free.

This is obv a 'zygor review' but hope you leave this post here as everyone is entitled to know what is out there (Plus.. i still say yours is better as its free :D )

I was having some trouble finding a good horde lvling guide till i came across this horde leveling and dalies guide . I took a risk and purchased it and it really paid off. Its a very easy to understand horde leveling and dalies guide. I would recomend u think about getting this guide as it has worked wonders for me and helped improve my gaming experience.

Hey there! This guide owns it makes lvling funner but pls make there be two paths in certain areas where u can choose a zone to do a quest circuit In or do an alternate one in another zone. Then u don't have to suffer in a zone u hate! exept then I wouldn't have went to desolace and have you shown me that tower with the argent Dawn guy, who would've known one if azeroths most beautiful locations Is in desolace?

Well, it takes me just a little above 3 days to go from 1 to 80 by doing nothing but solo questing with heirlooms. (between 1.5 and 2 days for level 60). I'm pretty sure though, that I am amongst the fastest solo levelers out there (as far as I know, nobody has challenged my old time (http://jamewowpro.blogspot.com/2010/02/1-80-in-3-days-played-with-no-rested.html), which I have undercut by 6 or 7 hours by now (: )

So I guess, you'll have to try for yourself. If speed leveling is your cup of tea, you'll certainly see better times from solo questing... if not: just spamming dungeons has become pretty competive, so I suggest you'll just do what seems most appealing to you for now
Note: jumping in and out the guide becomes a lot easier when you hit the burning crusade content. Simply doing one zone and then the next with a generous level range is pretty nice. (In the old world you gotta stay close to the recommended level since otherwise there'll be some grey quests to you / some that are of annoying difficulty and quite a few quests require you to visit a different zone, which is fine if you want to do it anyways, but if you didn't want to is probably a waste of time. BC / wotlk content is far more streamlined. Pick a zone, and you can simply quest in it, or stop it halfway through and still be able to progress to the next one without skipping a single quest in that one (should you chose to that is... Hellfire penisula is probably fair game till level 65 or sth )
Pretty stupid design, if you ask me... From bc content onwards quest rewards are always there, and you get pretty decent gear anyways, while my warlock for example replaced his green level 20 pants no earlier then level 60. Plus by level 60 all classes are pretty fast destroyers of mobs anyways (yay for exciting ultimate talents at the bottom of the talent tree):x
But whatever... NOW you can comfortably run dungeons without figuring out which parts of the zone you can safely skip without leaving out pre quests for later :x

Uhm... after rereading i got to say this comes off a lot harsher then intended. The old world quests are pretty cool, too. And it is entirely possible to run a few dungeons here and there if one feels like it (I tried it, it works! ).

I am going through the new guide for the horde and have noticed quite a few things not working the same as the old one. Some steps seem 'skipped' i.e. hearth to ______. Also, quite a few different steps have the posted cords way off from where they should be. One i remember is for the quest 'Further Instructions' i needed to turn it in at Rachet and it gave Camp T cords. No QH installed, Have TomTom, the leveling guide, and lightheaded. Please help.

Unfortunately, the version of the leveling guide you are using is no longer being supported. We are in transit to a new leveling guide fully coded by WoW-Pro members. It's in it's baby alpha stages right now and I won't recommend it to you yet since it probably has about an equal number of things not working, but soon it will be available to the general WoW-Pro public and should be a big improvement on the old guide

I used to have the one where the horde and alliance where separate, now it seems like there was a 'new' one that combines them. Am I correct in thinking that the one on the site now that says updated for 3.3 is already old? I wish that I didn't delete the first version that I had, the one separate of tourguide. Is there a way to get that one back? How soon until the new guide is fully coded, any ETA?

I wish I could give you more answers regarding the "old" addon (the one either using directly or heavily based on Tour Guide). However, I hadn't been involved in that addon's development and support for quite some time prior to it being discontinued. So I can't really help you out there

As far as the new addon, it's still pretty rough but I would expect a more open beta type version available within a month. We hope to have a polished, finished product before Cataclysm hits, but most people project that for late summer or fall so that's a long way off. Regardless, we should have something use-able in a month, at most two.

Just keep going. Do any quests in Howling Fjord that you haven't done yet. If you keep following the guides and do all of the quests in all of the zones you will be 80 (or close) when you're finished with Grizzly Hills.

I havn't quite gotten to the Icecrown area as such yet but noticed there were no guides listed for storm peaks? I know most people are leveled by that point but it's a great area and thought I would at least ask if there were any thoughts to adding a section for it.
Thanks

Jame has been away from his guides for some time now. I know he originally planned to write guides for each zone of Northrend, but it is likely that, if and when he returns, he will be concentrating on Cataclysm content. So these guides may never get written by him. However there are a few great guide writers here on WoW-Pro who are trying to fill in the gaps in these guides.

I've written a Storm Peaks (Horde) guide for the addon if you want to get it. You can find a link to it here. As far as a paper version goes, I do have an organized list of the quests that I wrote my guide from. It's not really a guide (and way below Jame's quality or I would have posted it here), but if you would like it, send me a PM and I'll get it to you.

I just wanted to say thanks I have a few 80's already and always found I was stumbling through most of it haphazardly so when I went horde I was even more lost. This guide is FANTASTIC and the addon is the most simple thing I've yet to encounter. Thank you so much for making the game more enjoyable and lowering the frustration level of always tabbing out.

Has the horde leveling guide changed? The guide i had before, which i downloaded a week ago, has changed and when i just downloaded it again. I clicked the same link as before. Is the old one still around?

The only thing that may have changed is an increase number of coordinates or clarity in objectives. Make sure you are using guides that say "WoW-Pro" in the title, otherwise you're using the default tour guide guides, not ours.

Jame. Best. Guide. Ever. I've used it religiously before, but you just outdid yourself by adding the in-game addon. My only question is why you haven't added it to Curse yet, but either way, awesome job making the WoW experience even better.

My first character was Horde undead rogue and he hit lvl 80 this week.

I used the Northrend guides from level 70 upwards. I always had rest experience (i only play 2-3 hrs a night), did very few group quests/dungeons, did plenty of the dailies in GH (especially those around the ships - 80k XP for 10 mins work) and finally ran out of guide just after reaching lvl 78. I moved to SB and did the Nessingway quests and then moved to Icecrown and dinged 80 not long after doing the quests from the airship. Lighthearted is a great benefit for questing first timers.

I still have massive areas of Northrend to explore but it will be so much easier as a lvl 80.

The tips i can try and pass on as regards gold making are:
Play the AH - get Auctioneer (but dont always trust it) let it scan the AH over a couple of weeks to get an idea of prices, create yourself a banker (i got mine to lvl 20 so he could DE lots of stuff) and log him at the start and end of your play session. Concentrate on trade goods - weapons/armor etc do not always sell quickly. Do not get greedy - buy at less than 40% of market value (less than 20% ideally - there is enought to make it worthwhile) and do not try to sell at more than 80% (unless current availability dictates otherwise). By doing this i have been able to fund new equipment as i levelled - including mounts.

I am a new player with a 73 druid on Ysera. I fumbled around even with Questhelper and your guides have made a huge difference in getting the leveling process moving forward in a smooth process. I want to thank you for all your hard work and kudoos to your support in the Wow Community.